The words of a Mystic...

This is a series of wisdom and mystical knowledge that will be examined... This knowledge will show the hidden teachings of Rabbi Yeshua ben Yosef also known as Jesus the Christ but will also include esoteric knowledge from the Mystics of all religions and philosophies...
All of these Mystics will ask you to find the ' Source of All ', and to ' Know Thyself '... Enter into the most important experience of your life...

My take is that "emptiness", (what is called "Shunyata" in the Buddhist teachings), is probably better translated as "unconditional openness"....or perhaps "spaciousness". The short 2 word phrase, "unconditional openness" better communicates the essential nature of this reality for me. And that is really just another name for love!

The true "emptiness" of Shunyata is really anything but empty in the normal english sense of that word imho and experience....So ultimately, I see no difference between love and what is often called "emptiness" in spiritual teachings. Perhaps the Heart Sutra's "Form is emptiness and emptiness is form" is kind of pointing here.

The word "Consciousness" is ordinarily taken to mean the totality of thoughts and feelings and knowledge held by anyone at any time: all his perceptions, ideas, remembrances, imaginations--in brief, his total awarenesses.

But in this philosophy, by capitalizing the initial "C," the term is given a fresh and deeper, still more abstract and subtler meaning.

It then becomes the self-contained being or entity which is aware.

This is the profound sense in which the word was used by Brahmin thinkers and mystics thousands of years ago, speaking and writing in the Sanskrit language.

The man who introduced it into the English language in 1690 was John Locke when he wrote: "Consciousness is the perception of what passes in a man's own mind."

This definition shows how long is the distance between those profounder Indians and the less metaphysically minded Europeans.